If you have a penchant for unusual plants, you may have heard of the ... what makes these perennials unique – they turn mostly transparent in the rain, leaving just their veining (or 'skeleton ...

So far researchers have tested the transparent effect on rice, tobacco, tomato, cucumber, moss, and other flowering plants. But this sort of botanical x-ray can be applied to anything that sprouts.

Researchers in Canada compared strawberry growth under uniform illumination from semi-transparent thin-film cadmium telluride ...